The U.S. or Hamas: Erdoğan Must Choose
Secretary Antony Blinken just completed a tour of countries in the Middle East to drum up support for Israel’s position and freeing the...
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Turkey’s Pursuit of Autonomous Foreign Policy and its Prospects
‘Turkey is obviously free to follow its own trajectory. What remains to be seen is how the country will balance its global geopolitical...
Is the U.S.A. Losing the Middle East?
‘The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, and Egypt have been charting their own paths, flagrantly disregarding Washington’s core...
Turkey Plans To Become Dominant Naval Player In The Caspian
‘What Ankara is doing now in Kazakhstan is not about that country alone but also about the projection of Turkish power to help its...
What Pakistan and China Gain if Turkey Joins CPEC
From Islamabad’s point of view, the addition of its “brotherly country” — which is how Pakistan has described Turkey in...
Will Erdoğan Ever Ditch His Offensive Foreign Policy?
‘We should abandon the notion that Erdoğan’s Turkey will anchor itself with the West. Leaders like Erdoğan — and perhaps Viktor...
Is Turkey Beyond the Opposition’s Grasp?
“Erdoğan does not make ‘foreign policy’ and (if you want the truth) we do not like foreign policy either. Erdoğan is...
‘Prodigal Son’ Fallacy: How Erdoğan is misread by the West
‘In terms of his worldview, Erdoğan is existentially and ferociously opposed to Western geopolitical dominance. He has been since his...
Four Phases of Turkish Foreign Policy Under Erdoğan
‘Serious Turkey watchers understood that there would be a lot of Turkey-related drama going into the NATO summit. That’s because the...
Post-Vilnius: A Change of Policy on Ankara is Underway
“Thanks to Congressional insistence – especially that of Senator Menendez – the administration is going to have to demonstrate that...